Good Councell against the plague: Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie.Learned phisition
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Good Councell against the plague: Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie.
Learned phisition
Plague -- Prevention -- Early works to 1800; Plague -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800
Take the roote of great _Valerian_, a quarter of an ounce: of _Sorrell_,
a handfull: an ounce of the roote of _Butter-bur_: boyle them in running
water, from a quart to a pint, put two spoonefulls of _Vineger_ to it,
and let the patient Drinke it so hot as he may, & then sweat vpon it.
An other speciall preseruatiue.
Take an Egge, make a hole in the top of it, take out the white & the
yolke, and fill the shell only with _Saffron_, rost the shell and
_Saffron_ together, in embers of Charcoales, vntill the shell waxe
yellowe: then beat shell and all together in a Morter, with halfe a
spoonefull of Mustard-seede: nowe so soone as any suspicion is had of
infection, dissolue the weight of a french Crowne, in ten spoonfuls of
posset-ale, drink it luke warme, & sweat vpon it in your naked bed.
An other preseruatiue to be distilled.
Take halfe a hundreth greene _VValnuts_, as they hange greene on the
tree, & a pound of þ inner barke of _Ash_ tree: then take _Petimorrell_,
_Housleeke_, _Scabias_, & _Veruyn_, of each a handfull, _Saffron_ halfe
an ounce, and mince all these smal together: then put a pottle of the
strongest _Vineger_ on them, boyle them ouer a soft fyer in a close pot,
& after distill them in a Limbecke: keepe the distilled water, & giue
the patient two ounces to drink therof, 4. times in xxiiii. howers, when
he is in his naked bed, & let him bee prouoked to sweat, and he shall
find great ease therby.
If the patient be bound in the body.
Take a suppository made with a little boyled Hunny, and a little powder
of Salt: let this be put vp at the fundament with a little butter,
vntill it moue him to the stoole.
Drinke for ordenary dyet.
So neere as you can, let the Patients ordenary drinke be good small Ale,
of eyght dayes olde.
For vomitting.
Uomitting is better than bleeding in this case, and therfore prouoke to
vomit so neere as you can.
To prouoke vomit.
Take three leaues of _Eastrabecca_, stampe it, and drinke it in Rennish
Wine, Ale, or posset Ale.
An other.
A little quantitie of white _Helibor_, grated and drunke in the like
sort, procureth vomyt.
A speciall vomit.
Take two ounces of Dyle of _VValnuts_, a spoonefull of the iuyce of
_Celandyne_, and halfe a spoonefull of the iuyce of _Reddith-rootes_:
Let not the partie sleepe for two howers after, and in so dooing it is
better than any purging.
For Purging.
If the partie be full of grosse humours, let hym blood immediatly vpon
the right arme, on the lyuer veyne, or on the median veyne, in the same
arme: so as no sore appeare the first day.
A very wholsome purge.
Put into the pap of an Apple, a sixpenny weight of _Alloes_, and so take
it: or the pyls of _Rufus_.
A very wholesome water to be distilled.
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